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From: Shoot1st	12/16/2006 8:50:43 PM
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Dozens hospitalized with carbon-monoxide poisoning By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle hospitals are reporting an "epidemic" of carbon-monoxide poisoning cases that doctors blame on the use of charcoal grills indoors. Since Friday night, Virginia Mason Medical Center has treated 48 people in its hyperbaric chamber, where severe carbon-monoxide cases are taken. There, sufferers receive a heavy dose of oxygen over a two-hour period. Harborview Medical Center reports more than 50 cases in the past 24 hours, many of which it has sent on to Virginia Mason for hyperbaric treatment. No deaths have been reported. Seven cases are reported critical. During the 1993 Inauguration Day storm — to which this week's windstorm has been compared — Virginia Mason saw 35 carbon-monoxide poisoning cases over a three-day period. "This has the potential to be the worst case of carbon-monoxide poisoning in the country," said Dr. Neil Hampson, a hyperbaric medical specialist at Virginia Mason. Hampson said 45 of the 48 people treated at Virginia Mason were poisoned by smoke from charcoal briquettes; the other three were from a gas-powered portable generator. Public Health-Seattle & King County warns against using unvented, combustion-powered sources of heat or power indoors.

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